Legendary director Werner Herzog explores the future of A.I. in new documentary

Legendary director Werner Herzog explores the future of A.I. in new documentary

The cinematic genius known as Werner Herzog turns his camera toward the future of artificial intelligence in his latest documentary. Although he’s been making both fiction films and documentaries since 1968, the German director has never really crossed over into sci-fi territory in any of his work (and only horror once, with his eerie 1979 remake of Nosferatu). Yet Herzog is one of our greatest living filmmaking treasures. so it’s a rare treat to write about a new project of his here at Blastr. That film is a new documentary called Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World, in which he explores the evolution of artificial intelligence and poses some fascinating questions about its current state and future, such as: Is the Internet conscious and aware of itself? Will…